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removing background
Hi all. I’m new the forum and am very excited that I stumbled upon this place. I had no idea how developed the community was. I have a simple question about After Effects. On this website their is a series of video portraits on the home page. I have this looping film of portraits as a .swf and .mov. I want to remove the backgrounds that are NOT black and replace them with black. I want all of those subjects in the video portraits to be on a black background. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
~ Regards
Steven Case -
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Hey, try this tutorial. It’s not exactly what you’re looking for but the idea behind it is somewhat similar. Give it a shot atleast
https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial.html?id=59
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Try duplicating the layer, then use levels or one of the many other color correctors to force the darks to black and the lights to white, then use that layer with the first layer and invoke the ancient art of TRANSFER MODES.
Regards,
Joe Springer
Certified Adobe After Effects Training and Premiere Training Instructor -
Yeah or just keyframe a mask and put a black solid behind it. These shots don’t look very long, so it wouldn’t take too much except maybe for hair edges. You could isolate the hair edges with a duplicate layer then and keylight the white. Mask-protect the interior portions that are close to white that you want to leave unaffected.
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